this is a very serious situation that needs urgent solution, most project now take the advantage of the fact that blockchain is a decentralized platform and no regulations whatsoever to scam and cheat gullible investors,
if investors can be required to go through kyc before participating in most ico's, same should be equally required from any ico project, there should be some form of ico regulatory bodies that can conduct a proper background check on the founders and dev team of any ico, they must past through some certain requirement in other to conduct there ico's, too many scam project in the market.
in case of Equi, we use custodial account approach, as described in ANN thread. Its simply not possible even to sell your private keys. So there is a gateway to get in, ensuring that everything is according to the law.
this is I believe the part where decentralized tech and current regulations are not fully compatible.
hence custodial account approach used in Equi.
will be grateful to hear constructive criticism towards this project.